At graduation, Bill was assigned to USS RALEIGH, home ported in Pearl Harbor, where she was sunk on December 7, 1941. Flight School came in 1942-1943. He married Phyllis H. Sparr July 1, 1942. Daughter, Carol, was born April 14, 1944. Bill was assigned to Bombing Squadron 131 as XO, flying missions from Attu. After this tour, he reported to Post Graduate School for the course in Ordnance Engineering (Aviation) in 1945 and on to Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1946. Daughter, Joanne, was born March 3, 1947. In 1947, Bill served as test pilot at the Naval Ordnance Test Station in Inyokern, California, and had Refresher Training at Corpus Christi, Texas in 1948. In May, 1949, he reported as XO of Patrol Squadron Four at Whidby Island, Washington, and in 1951 served as BuOrd Representative in San Diego. In 1953, he was assigned to the Staff of Commander Air Force, Pacific Fleet, and in 1954, he became CO of Patrol Squadron 22 at Barbers Point, Oahu, Hawaii, until March of 1956, when he was assigned to the Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D.C. In 1958, Bill became XO and then CO of Airborne Early Warning Squadron One, operating out of Guam. In 1960, it was back to Washington to serve on the Staff of the Secretary of Defense. Two years later, he took command of the NROTC Unit at the University of Rochester, N.Y.

Bill retired on July 1, 1965, and joined the staff of the N.Y. State Department of Labor as Director of On-the-Job Training and served there until retirement in August, 1981. Phyllis received her Masters of Education Degree in Reading at the University of Rochester and was on the staff of La Salle School in Albany as Reading Specialist until retiring in 1981.

Bill and Phyllis have resided in Slingerlands, N.Y., from Navy retirement until the present, except for three or four months in Florida each year. Both daughters are married. Carol has three sons and one daughter. Joanne has one son.

First, Ned was ordered to MARYLAND in communications, and, in February, 1941, to NORTH CAROLINA for commissioning and fitting out. Serving first in communications then to 16" gun turret III, operating in Atlantic and Pacific until torpedoed during Guadalcanal campaign at which time he was ordered to flight training. After receiving wings, he reported as exec to VPB 201, a PBM squadron, covering convoys and various ASW operations in the Atlantic. At war's ending, he went to MIT for his masters in aero engineering. Next, Ned was ordered to BAR El Segundo in a special engineering assignment. Then, after a refresher course in PB4Y's at Corpus Christi, he reported to FASRON 117 in Hawaii and, as C.O. built it into a heavy maintenance facility during the Korean War. Now designated for engineering duty, he reported to BuAer as Service Engines Branch Head, then as Engines Technical Officer at COMNAVAIRPAC, totaling six years of Fleet-wide engine problems. Next came BAR and INSORD at Aerojet Azusa and Sacramento on Polaris, rocket engines and torpedo programs. Making Captain, he was ordered to NAVAIRSYSCOM as Aircraft Division R&D Plans and Programs officer. Then, as C.O. of the overhaul facility, Pensacola, he was back enjoying all phases of aircraft repair and production. His last duty station was as the Navy Plant Representative, Long Beach.

Upon retiring, Ned went into the brokerage business, but gravitated back into aviation by going, with family, to Iran as depot manager for the F-14 program and as Advisor Director of Engineering, developing a large aircraft and engine overhaul facility in Tehran. Navy technical experience proved invaluable in a most difficult environment, but all enjoyed R&R trips throughout the Middle East, Russia, and on around the world. Mark, their youngest, skiied each winter weekend and had his high school graduation on the Tehran embassy grounds. After three years, all departed before the hostage crisis and Ned joined McDonnell-Douglas in various duties until retiring in 1984. While in flight training, Ned married the vivacious Bertha Quina, youngest of six sisters, all married to naval officers, and they have four children and seven grandchildren residing in California - thanking God for His blessings .

Ralph spent most of WW II in USS NEW MEXICO, serving both on the North Atlantic convoy runs and in the South Pacific. After completing the naval construction and engineering postgraduate course at MIT, he had typical ship technical duties plus tours in Paris, Buenos Aires, Pacific Island Trust Territories, and on the War Crimes Military Commission.

After requesting retirement, he specialized in consulting work, including stints in Vietnam for the Hudson Institute and projects for General Electric. An opportunity to run an ocean cargo shipping company brought him to Miami. The Gerber family now reside in a quiet Miami suburb at 216 Bal Cross Drive, Bal Harbour. Except for being Chairman of the Board of La Gorce Country Club, he is mostly retired - the exceptions being part-time assignments involving Latin American countries.

As befits the youngest (least old) member of the class, he started family life later than most. In 1970, Ralph married Rowena Lewis of Springfield, Illinois, and they have three children - Stephen (1971), Hilary (1973), and ƒBradley (1978). If Bradley attends the USNA, he would be in the class of 2000!

Virgil Edward Gex (Virg, or Dec) grew up on a farm in northwest Missouri, and was appointed to the Naval Academy from Missouri. Failing the eye exams during first-class year, Virg was discharged from the Navy and commissioned in the Naval Reserve. He took an engineering position with Procter & Gamble on graduation, and was assigned to their Kansas City plant. However, in December, 1940, the Navy discovered they couldn't get along without him after all, and he was ordered to active duty in USS CHEW (DD106), based at Pearl Harbor. Virg progressed from junior Ensign to Gunnery Officer/Senior Watch Officer in the next two years, as CHEW operated in the Hawaiian Sea Frontier Local Defense Force. CHEW was moored uncomfortably close to ARIZONA (400 yds) on December 7th, 1941. Virg had an unobstructed view of the plane, the bomb, and the ensuing magazine explosion that destroyed the ship; he felt as though someone had kicked him in the pit of his stomach. However, the Japanese were accurate, and uninterested in WW I four-pipers, so Virg and CHEW came through the attack unscathed.

In May, 1943, Virg was ordered to new construction destroyer escorts. As Executive Officer, he placed USS NEUNZER (DE 150) in commission on September 27, 1943, with classmate John Greenbacker as skipper. In May, 1944, Virg took command of NEUNZER, and remained her skipper until January, 1946. NEUNZER escorted convoys to and from the Mediterranean until July, 1944. She then joined the USS GUADALCANAL submarine hunter-killer group, and operated with them for the rest of the war. On April 24, 1945, NEUNZER participated in the sinking of the U-546, after the sub torpedoed and sank FREDERICK C. DAVIS, next to NEUNZER in a sub-search line. For this action, Virg was awarded the Bronze Star.

Released to inactive duty in early 1946, Virg returned to Procter & Gamble's Engineering Division in Cincinnati. After various engineering assignments in the next several years, he was named Associate Director of Engineering Development in the 1960's, with responsibility for developing new machinery for the Company's new product areas. In the ensuing years, he directed the development of machinery for making and packaging many new products - including Safeguard soap, Pampers and Luvs Diapers, and Pringles potato chips.

On July 2, 1949, Virg and Isabelle Devenish, of Cincinnati, were married. They have three children: Mary (1950), Will (1952), and Robert (1954). Finally, after they had given up hope, they have two grandchildren, born in 1987.

Virg retired from Procter & Gamble in 1977. He and Isabelle continue to reside at 68 Reily Road, Wyoming, Ohio, in the house Isabelle grew up in. Since retirement, they have indulged in their love of travel, and have visited every continent except Antarctica. Between trips, they spend winters in the Florida Keys (lots of fishing), and part of each summer in Maine and eastern Canada.

Ed's first duty was in MISSISSIPPI and on December 7th was just about as far from Pearl Harbor as one could get -- Iceland. BatDiv Three went to fight the battle of San Francisco Bay. One unforgettable assignment occurred on February 14, 1942, when young Ed was ordered to the San Francisco Cotillion. His partner was one Ann Witter, a native San Franciscan; this assignment was consolidated September 2, 1942, with wedding bells.

Navy Wings were obtained in May, 1943 and due to altitude sickness, Ed landed in a patrol plane berth stationed in Mr. Castro's back yard in days when Cuba was looked upon with much higher favor than at present. During this tour, Ann presented the family with their first daughter, Barbara Deanne. 1944 to 1946 was spent at P.G. School, and the California Institute of Technology. Ed's last tour was at the Naval Air Development Center; in June, 1949, he returned to the rank of civilian. While in Philadelphia, a second daughter, Cody Elaine, arrived.

In San Francisco, Ed joined the national insurance brokerage firm of Johnson & Higgins. A third daughter, Cherie, was born early in 1961 and currently is an editor at Random House in New York City and is still single. Life continued with insurance brokerage the prime pursuit and by 1966, Ed had become a national director with the prime responsibility of the San Francisco office. 1968 saw themarriage of number two daughter, Cody, to Gene Kirkham. The Kirkham's are now vintners, living in St. Helena, CA. 1970 saw the marriage of number one daughter, Deanne, to Tom Violich. The Violich's raise avocados and manage properties in Santa Barbara, CA.

1973 was a "down" year, as Ed's marriage to Ann was dissolved; however, by 1975, a whole new world evolved with his marriage to Ingrid Gmeinwieser, who was born and raised in Munich, Germany. The business pace from 1966 to retirement in 1981 was hectic, frantic, satisfying and rewarding; nonetheless, extra-curricular endeavors kept the head clear. Tennis, golf, hunting, fishing and numerous philanthropic undertakings (U.C. Hospital, YMCA, United Way, Trustee for four private Foundations, U.C. Business School and Golden Gate University) filled the bill. The memorable day was September 1, 1981, when Ed left Johnson & Higgins never to return. A clean break at retirement has seen New Zealand, with four visits to that country, mainly for fishing, and to Argentina to explore fishing. During duck season, there is hardly a day missed on the duck marsh; the golf game back to normal (if a 23 handicap is normal);the tennis game is passable and participation in local club life, plus the four private Foundations, now round out the retirement life. Ed and Ingrid reside at 945 Green Street in San Francisco on Russian Hill, overlooking the Bay and checking a rather different Navy (from the "good old days" come and go.

Upon graduation, Phil reported to CINCINNATI (CL6) in the Pacific, later deployed to the South Atlantic. In 1942, he attended Submarine School, followed by 9 war patrols in the Pacific in 2 submarines: GREENLING (SS 213) and FLASHER (SS 249). His duties varied from 1st Lieutenant to Executive Officer and on 4 patrols, he was Assistant Approach Officer during attacks.

While serving in these submarines, they sank 31 ships, totaling 151,533 tons, including a cruiser, 3 destroyers and a gunboat. GREENLING also damaged an aircraft carrier. His skippers were awarded 7 Navy Crosses. He received 3 Silver Stars and a Combat Legion of Merit in lieu of a 4th Silver Star. The post war Joint Army-Navy Assessment Committee, after examining Japanese records, officially credited FLASHER with sinking the largest tonnage of any U. S. submarine in World War II. Phil was aboard during all of these sinkings. Both FLASHER and GREENLING were awarded Presidential Unit Citations.

In post-war years, Phil had 6-1/2 years of ship command in BERGALL (SS 320), KEPPLER (DDE 765), TRUCKEE (AO 147) and Submarine Squadron 8. KEPPLER won the Battle Efficiency Pennant and TRUCKEE, the Battle Efficiency Pennant/Marjorie Sterrett Award. During his commands, he participated in the 1st Unitas Cruise, the Cuban Crisis (conducting 166 refuelings in 5 weeks) and a month-long submarine exercise, commanding 14 NATO submarines.

Shore Duty included: Staff of CINCLANTFLT, during which he planned a 28-ship Great Lakes cruise celebrating the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway; student at the Senior Naval War College; and Fleet Plans Officer for CINCPACFLT during the 1st two years of the Vietnam War.

Retiring in 1966, his 15 year civilian career was at Electric Boat as Chief of Planning and Deputy Program Manager for the construction of Attack and Missile Submarines, including the Tridents. He was active in civic affairs.

Phil married Dorothy Leunig in Perth, West Australia, in January, 1945. She joined him in San Francisco in October. The couple had 4 children between 1946 and 1959: Philip Jr., Charles, Richard and Ann. Phil and Dorrie were divorced in 1973. A year later, he married a Navy widow, Barbara Bunn. They lived happily in Mystic, CT until 1988 when they moved to Tega Cay, S.C., on beautiful Lake Wylie. Phil's 4 children and Barbara's 2 (Giles and Candace) are well situated and happily married. There are 6 grandchildren.

Upon graduation, Scott reported to USS MISSISSIPPI. The ship was suddenly ordered into the North Atlantic in May, 1941, and war broke out while Scott was in Iceland. A hurried trip back to San Francisco found Barbara Sorrick, and after many delays due to unexpected sailing, Scott and Barbara were married in September, 1943. A few days later, Scott left for Alaska and then the South Pacific. Two years at Annapolis and MIT brought an MS degree in Electrical Engineering although the PG course was entitled Ordnance (Fire Control). Scott then joined HELENA in Shanghai as Gun Boss, so Barbara settled in Long Beach. Shortly afterward, Scott, Jr., was born. This was followed by assignment to OpDevFor at Norfolk, where a daughter, Jane, joined the family. The Goodfellows then went westward again, to the Pasadena Annex of the Naval Ordnance Test Station.

After almost three years, Scott took command of FRANK KNOX, a radar picket destroyer. The family moved to Coronado, eventually bought a lot; and during Scott's second deployment, Barbara watched the construction of their home there. Orders to ComCruDesPac's Staff followed, and the Goodfellows became reasonably permanent residents. Washington finally entered the picture as the National War College beckoned. Washington proved to be a delightful three-year tour as the Bureau of Ordnance demanded two years penance for the War College's sabbatical. Vince Healey relieved, and orders as Commander Destroyer Division 112 took Scott back to the same division he had been in as Commanding Officer. After one year, Scott reported as Chief of Staff, Commander Destroyer Flotilla Three in Long Beach. This was followed by a year in command of the attack transport PAUL REVERE, after which Scott returned to Washington to the Bureau of Naval Weapons. Scott's Washington duty included assignments as Deputy Special Project Officer in the Polaris program; Chief of Naval Development; and Deputy Chief of Naval Material for R&D. In between, he was CO of the cruiser GALVESTON, Commander OPTEVFOR and of two cruiser-destroyer flotillas. His last assignment was as Superintendent of the Navy Postgraduate School at Monterey.

After retirement in 1972, Scott returned to Coronado and became a leader in community activities. He was chosen Rotarian of the Year in 1980, was twice president of the Coronado Floral Association and served on the Coronado Residential Association board. Scott died of cardiac arrest on 29 September, 1985. Barbara remains at 409 First Street in Coronado. Son, Scott, Jr., lives in Minneapolis and their daughter, Jane, is in Miami.

Affectionately known as "Swede," he was aboard USS PENNSYLVANIA at the time of its attack by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. He continued to serve in the Pacific throughout the war. He was Executive Officer of USS SHANNON in action against Japanese forces near Okinawa and was engaged in minesweeping operations on the same ship.

After the war, Swede served with the Joint American Advisory Group in London. He also served as liaison officer between these headquarters and the political headquarters of the United States in Europe in the capacity of one of the military advisors to Averell Harriman.

Swede went to the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Johns Hopkins University, Silver Spring, Maryland, as a Commander in November, 1954, from his post as Commanding Officer of USS RICHARD E. KRAUS, (DD- 849), in Norfolk. This ship had the unique assignment of evaluating ordnance equipment for the Operations Development Force. During his service at APL, he represented the Navy in important laboratory planning.

Cdr. Goranson went back to sea assignment on Staff of Commander Cruisers, Atlantic, in December, 1957. He was promoted to Captain in 1958. He was Commander of Destroyer Division 262, Norfolk, at the time of his death. He was killed in a Capitol Airlines plane crash in Virginia in January, 1960, while traveling under orders to return for conference with superiors on an undisclosed project. He is buried in the Naval Academy Cemetery.

Swede was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1916; graduate of Bowling Green High School; attended Bowling Green State University in Ohio, 1934-1936; U.S. Naval Academy, 1936-1940; one year postgraduate, U.S. Naval Academy; Graduate of MIT, 1949, MS in Electrical Engineering; and also attended the Naval War College in Newport, 1946.

He was married to Brinkley Craft (Goranson) in Honolulu in 1945. There were six children: Harold Theodore, Jr., (1947); Kristin (1948); Stephen (1950); Jonathan (1953, deceased); Zoe (1954); Jon (following his father's death, 1960). His widow, Brinkley, is a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, serving at First Lutheran Church, Norfolk. She resides at 1316 Bruton Lane, Virginia Beach, VA.

As Fred looks back through the Window of Time, he finds the most memorable part of his naval career occurred during World War II. It started with battleship pre-war convoys to Iceland, followed by cruiser duty in the Pacific (Midway), destroyer convoy operations in the Atlantic, amphibious landing operations in Sicily, Normandy, and Southern France, and finally cruiser duty with the Fast Carrier Task Forces in the Pacific and support in the Okinawa landings. His personal high point in that period was assignment as Gunnery Officer of the U.S. Task Force responsible for the planning and operations of the Allied landings at Utah Beach in Normandy, France. After World War II, other than command of a destroyer, shore assignments in Atomic Energy, CINCEUR in Europe, and the Boston Naval Shipyard, while interesting to him, lacked the intensity and impact of war-time sea duty.

After his retirement from the Navy, Fred obtained a Master's Degree from Boston College and a Doctorate from New York University to become an Academic. Whereas the Navy provided excitement, action, travel, constant change, new interests, and new friendships, the scholarly life tended towards a more peaceful and tranquil style with emphasis on teaching, community service, personal growth and achievement. As a Professor at a typical American University, Fred found the youthful atmosphere with its search for knowledge, values, and truth to be highly challenging, stimulating, and an ideal environment for study, contemplation, and exchanges of wisdom. He retired reluctantly at age 70 as the Tri-Campus Departmental Chairman with more questions on his mind than answers.

At this stage, Fred has three main pursuits. One is to develop his skills as a painter. He hopes to expand on his small artistic talent, particularly as to "color" and "form", into something meaningful. Secondly, to keep enjoying his family and, he hopes, to influence his wife, two sons, and five grandsons, or conversely, be stimulated by their actions, insights, and perceptions. And thirdly, to continue to read the old Classics, the Masterpieces of Literature, and to study the world religions to try to understand "What it's all about".

Pat's first duty was in IDAHO (BB33) at Pearl Harbor. Following sub school in 1942, Pat participated in five successful submarine combat patrols against the Japanese. After hospitalization for a ruptured appendix in 1945, he rejoined Pacific Fleet as XO of CAIMAN (SS 323). While serving in CAIMAN, Pat met and wed Beatrice Castle Kirk DeGarmo, widow of classmate Edward E. DeGarmo; lost in action as a Torpedo Squadron Commander over Okinawa. DeGarmo sons, Alan and Edward, Jr., were adopted into the Gray family; with brothers, Patrick Erwin and Stephen Douglas, added in 1947 and 1953. After CAIMAN, Pat entered law school at George Washington University. He was a member of the Law Review, received a Juris Doctor degree with honors, and was elected to the Order of the Coif upon graduation in 1949. Next came duty on Staff, ComSubForPac, as Flag Secretary and Force Legal Officer. During the Korean War, Pat made three patrols in command of TIRU (SS 416). After Armed Forces Staff College, he returned to sea in 1955 as XO FULTON (AS 11) in New London. He then served as ComSubDiv 101 (six fast attack submarines), followed by duty with ComSubForLant, as TacTra Officer, and Polaris Project Officer. In October, 1958, he was selected for duty as Military Assistant to the Chairman, JCS, and Special Assistant to SecDef.

Pat retired from the Navy in June, 1960, as Captain. He joined the staff of Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Republican nominee for President. After Nixon's narrow defeat by John F. Kennedy, Pat, Bea and their four sons returned to New London and the general practice of law. In January, 1969, Pat was appointed Executive Assistant to the Secretary of HEW. He was awarded the DSM with citation, "For his outstanding leadership, performance and dedication as Executive Assistant... His efforts exemplified the words No mission too difficult'." Pat returned to his law practice briefly, but was soon requested to serve on the President's Cabinet Committee on Desegregation.

In December, 1970, Pat was appointed Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Civil Division. In 1972, the Senate Judiciary Committee reported his nomination to be Deputy Attorney General to the full Senate with a favorable 13 to 0 vote. Legendary FBI Director John Edgar Hoover died, and Pat was appointed Acting Director in May, 1972. During the next 51 weeks, he and Bea visited 58 of the 59 Field Divisions in order to oversee FBI operations at first hand and, following the later years' decline of the aging Hoover, bring the FBI into a new era. However, infighting between Republicans and Democrats following Nixon's "Watergate" forced Pat's reluctant resignation from the FBI. He was later completely cleared of all charges of participation in the breakdown of the Nixon government, but during that contentious period, he considered it proper to respectfully decline election to the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Presidency by his supportive Alumni associates and former shipmates. Following his resignation as Acting Director, FBI, Pat returned to the practice of law in New London and Groton, Connecticut.

After graduation, OZZIE served 33 months in USS MISSISSIPPI, with duty in the Pacific, North Atlantic, Iceland and back in the Pacific. After Guadalcanal, while enroute to commission NEW JERSEY in PhilaNYD, he married Josephine L. Hart in San Francisco. While NEW JERSEY was based in Casco Bay, ME, he received 4 days leave to see Jo and their infant son, Oscar E. III, born December 17, 1943. Off again in NEW JERSEY, he saw combat action in various Pacific campaigns with TF 58. In September, 1944, he was ordered to commission SAINT PAUL at Quincy, MA via ORD&GUNSCL and 7 weeks TAD in PITTSBURGH. As Assistant and later as Gunnery Officer, he again saw action in SAINT PAUL in the final days of the war off Japan. After destroying guns, and other Japanese military installations, SAINT PAUL, in November, 1945, sailed to SHANGHAI, CHINA to act as the flagship of CTF 73 & COMYANGPAT. OZZIE reported to PG School (Ordnance Engineering) in June, 1946. In June, 1949, he left JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY with a Master of Engineering degree. He joined O'HARE as XO and Nav. in Oslo, Norway via CIC School, Boston. In 1951, he left O'HARE to attend AFSC, NORVA then to MISSOURI as Gunnery Officer for 2 years, being awarded the Bronze Star with Combat V for Korean operations. After 3 years in OPNAV, during which tour, their 2nd child, Virginia Anne, was born May 19, 1955, he assumed command of O'BRIEN for 2 years, winning the Battle Efficiency E in 1957. Back to BUORD in 1958 as Terrier and Tartar Program Manager, then to BUWEPS as Surface Weapons Officer in 1959. After a 1-year command tour in ASHTABULA, he was off to CINCLANT/CINCLANTFLT Staff, where he served as CINCLANT Battle Staff Supervisor during the Cuban Missile Crisis and DomRep Crisis. In 1965, he came back to BUWEPS as Head, Missile Ordnance Division, thence to NAVORD as Director, Weapons Systems for the AAW Directorate and SURMISYSPROJ. OZZIE retired from active duty July 1, 1970, being awarded the Meritorious Service Medal and the NAVORD Achievement Medallion.

After a period with Innerspace Science Corporation, he joined the Raytheon Service Company in July, 1972, as Lead Engineer, Surface Gunnery, later becoming Lead Engineer for Command and Control, Weapons, and Communications. Retiring from Raytheon in 1981, he was occupied with building furniture, clocks, foreign travel with Jo, gardening, and later, with computer programming, until his unexpected death, March 9, 1989.

JO and OZZIE were blessed with two children, Oscar E. III (BS, USNA '65, MS OSU '74), and Virginia A. (BA Wellesley 77, MBA Harvard 81), and 3 grandchildren, one girl and two boys. Jo continues to reside at 1305 Oberon Way, McLean, VA.

At graduation, Frank reported for Pacific duty in light cruiser USS PHILADELPHIA (CL-41), based at Pearl Harbor, 1940-1942. She went to Atlantic and European Theater convoy duty in North Atlantic and invasions in Africa and Med. in 1943.

He was assigned to Engineering Duty: to MIT for graduate studies and a degree in Master of Science, 1945, then to Brooklyn Naval Shipyard for duty as Ship Repair and Construction Superintendent and Docking Officer, 1945-1949. Next was Naval Academy duty in Marine Engineering, 1949-1952; Bureau of Ships, 1952-1955, as Head of Landing Ship Department; then Head of Machinery. He co-led the Navy's first effort in Value Engineering.

Frank resigned as a Commander in December, 1955, and was employed at Monarch Machine Tool Co. of Sidney, Ohio as Vice President of Manufacturing and a Director, 1956-1961. From there he became Director of Operations at Continental Copper and Steel Corp., NY, 1962- 1963; employed at American Can Co., NY, in increasing management positions 1963-1969: General Manager of Machinery Division; Vice President, Manufacturing of all Rigid Container Operations; Vice President and General Manager of Rigid Container Division; Corporate Senior Vice President. He then went to Crompton and Knowles Corporation as President, C.E.O., and Chairman, 1969-1986.

During the industry phase, Frank was engaged in activities in many industries world-wide --machinery, paper, chemicals, pulp mills, timberlands, metal processing, textiles.

Various other activities include:

Clubs: Sky Club, New York City; Baltusrol Golf Club, Springfield, NJ.

Frank married JoAnne Divisek of Denver, Colorado in 1946. Children: Gayle, James, Joseph, David. JoAnne died, 1980. He married Anne Dysart Walkley of Columbia, SC in 1982, with daughter, Elisabeth.

Assigned to YORKTOWN on graduation, John spent a historic two years in that ship, including the 1941 undeclared war in the Atlantic, the Battle of the Coral Sea and its sinking at Midway. The subsequent interlude provided time for his marriage to Carolyn Perrow on July 25, 1942. The remainder of the war he spent in ASW operations: CO of SC-1472, a reverse lend-lease British Fairmyle; exec of STEWART; CO of NEUNZER; then CO of LLOYD E. ACREE. The last two ships took him from Atlantic convoying to the Philippines, then on the China.

Returning from wartime deployment in May, 1946, John was assigned to the law postgraduate program at Georgetown. On graduation and after the birth of his fourth child, John returned to sea duty as Flag Secretary to Commander, Cruiser Force Atlantic. Then back to Washington with the Military Sea Transportation Service staff in 1952. Sea duty in 1955 followed with command of CORRY, then the Bureau of Naval Personnel, then back to sea as ComDesDiv 262 in 1961 and CO FREMONT in 1962. This rotation between Washington and Norfolk made Carolyn and the children one of the most provincial of Navy families.

After Naval War College in 1963-64, John was assigned to the staff of Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, as Fleet Operations Officer, followed by his final sea duty in Charleston as ComDesRon SIX, comprised at that time of all brand new missile ships. He returned to BuPers in 1966 for his final tour, retiring in August, 1969, after obtaining another law degree, this one a Master's in Taxation.

John was employed by Baltimore Gas and Electric Company from 1969 to 1976 in the legal and financial areas. The Greenbackers then moved to Carolyn's farm in Halifax County in southside Virginia. After two years of non-serious farming, John entered the full time practice of law in Halifax in partnership with his son, John Jr. The son has since left the firm to become the county prosecutor, but John labors on in the law office. He hopes to be permitted to retire by age 75 and spend the rest of his life on the farm, back where the number of horses' sterns does not exceed the number of his daughter's horses.

After graduation, Tom's first duty was in NASHVILLE, CL43. As junior Deck and Engineering Officer and finally Assistant Engineer, he sailed over 200,000 miles on a multitude of missions including Neutrality Patrol, Iceland Convoys, the Doolittle Raid, Aleutian Campaign, and the Guadalcanal Campaign. He was transferred to MIT for postgraduate study in Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture in 1943 and designated (ED) on arrival at Mare Island Navy Yard in 1945. Tom spent VE and VJ day in Vallejo, and drydocked a record number of ships during the "Magic Carpet" period. Then came orders to JASON ARH-1 as the first ED to become a Repair Officer afloat. His first order of business was to marry Patsy Marie Casper at St. Peter's chapel on 13 January, 1948. They are still married after 40 years, five kids and five grandchildren, so he counts that part of his life an unqualified success. JASON spent much time in Guam, San Diego, and Sasebo in support of 3rd and 7th Fleets. After 45 months, Tom at last received orders to BuShips in Washington, assigned to the Battleship and Cruiser Type Desk where he participated in transfer of his first ship, NASHVILLE, to Chile. After three hectic years, he was ordered to SPCC MECHANICSBURG as Technical Division Director where they developed COSAL, using the Navy's first computer, IBM 705. Next came duty as CO SHIP REPAIR FACILITY, GUAM, where they survived two typhoons, overhaul of AFDM-8, and selection to Captain. Then back to BUSHIPS for duty as Assistant Inspector General and later Fleet Maintenance Assistant. Then came three years as Planning Officer of PEARL HARBOR NAVAL SHIPYARD. Back to Washington again for his final tour, this time with INSURV Main Board as Senior Machinery Inspector.

Tom "retired" at the end of 1966 and immediately went to work for classmate Tad Stanwick at TSC. He worked with the SARATOGA Improvement Program and JOHN F. KENNEDY Pre-commissioning detail and then jumped ship to Litton Industries. He spent three years with Amecom Division in College Park as program manager and then in 1971 was off to Culver City, CA to work LHA-1 and DD-963 Programs. He shifted to the Surface Effect Ship Program when the rest of the design group moved to Pascagoula. Tom was transferred to ROHR MARINE, INC., when they took over the contract in 1973 and was moved to San Diego County in 1974. He stayed with RMI for ten years as Systems Engineering Manager and Quality Assurance Director until final retirement in 1983. Tom is currently engaged in enjoying the weather, the grandchildren, and duffing off.